I gave the soccer players practice off for Good Friday (half will be out of town and the other half at religious services, so…). No soccer games on Easter weekend, so I’ll have about 4 days off from coaching, then busy until 19 May with it.
Supposed to be drier and warm for the next three days, so I may spend Easter Sunday giving the yard it’s first mowing of the season. Need to do it then because the folks who come around to pick up the bagged clippings show up on Moanday, so unless I want bags of decomposing grass sitting out front for a week, then that’s when it gets done.
Groggy and in need of caffine.
I’ll have to read about this shot glass thing, I have a number of them I’ve picked up on my travels, but I don’t drink or keep booze in my house, so I may have to, like Midget, find some alternative.
Moooooomm, things will work out, maybe not quite as planned, but they will work out. Can’t sister drive herself?
**MetalMouse **- she could drive herself, but she wouldn’t have a place to stay. I’m *not *sharing a hotel room with my husband and my sister - just too weird. She was going because I didn’t want to drive alone.
I’m playing the shot glass game. You don’t send booze - sheesh - it’d spill!!!
I prefer to think of it as some disassembly required.
Was up late trying to coordinate all of the moving pieces for a potentially really, really cool photo shoot for tomorrow night, like if it works as hoped, it’ll definitely win some awards. Maybe that’s why, when I woke up early, I was thinking it was Saturday already & what all I need to put into the car. :smack: Soooo disappointed to realize it wasn’t & that I needed to go to irk today.
Anyway, as to what all I need for tomorrow, put it this way, it’s looking to start at 5am & not get home for the end of the day before 11pm (at the earliest, more likely after midnight).
Double early morning events, come home, shower & pack the car full & then triple events in the afternoon, evening, & night.
I don’t think I’ll participate in more Doper swaps; it’s really fun, but it costs so much to post stuff from the US, and the last parcel someone sent me via one vanished… The time I joined the shot glass exchange, the person who was supposed to be sending to me vanished instead, which wasn’t really better.
On the other hand, the booze I sent on that one 'cos I didn’t realise you couldn’t (I even declared it properly on the customs form!) got through fine…
Irked this morning, and now I have no real plans until next Friday, when I irk again. The plan is to try and get all the skool irk I need to do out of the way in the first week, so I can enjoy myself a bit more in the second without feeling guilty or distracted.
The next flat (the one I share a wall with) is on holibobs for a few weeks, so I could even throw wild parties. It all sounds like a lot of effort though.
Blurfage Irking as usual and playing clerk. we are kinda busy with the holiday and all. I have to irk a half day tomorrow as well. My new hires are getting processed asap but there is a training period. The girl I am hiring for Sat only had worked for another facility on base so sort of knows the drill. I figure I will work with her for two sat’s and then she can run with it.
I have a budget to write and coming up on the 1st so I have other stuff to do besides clerk duties.
Mom, this is something I just don’t understand, why do you have to be there when the baby arrives? They have hospitals with nurses and everything in Florida, as I remember. I know I was never socialized properly, but I just don’t get it.
And as long as I’m being a wet blanket, I don’t know if we even have a shot glass around here. I suppose I could go to the likker store and procure one, maybe, for trading purposes. I suppose I could fill it with tiny little peanut butter cups.
The dented food store had them on sale and Wifey brought home 5 bags of them.
**Bumba **- I don’t *have *to be there, but I *want *to be there. I won’t arrive till after the baby does anyway. But it’s my first grandbaby, fercryin’outloud!!!
A high school friend posted something in FB about how it’s pouring down rain and it always seems to pour down rain between 1 & 3 on Good Friday. I’m pretty sure the crucifixion wasn’t on Eastern Daylight Time, and it’s all sunny where I am. Then again, that could be the Amish influence. If this friend had said such things when we were in high school, we wouldn’t have become friends. She’s gotten mega-religious in her old age. Whatever works for her.
This may be bad for my productivity stats at work - for some unknown reason, the Dope has been unblocked.
About those smoke detectors - even if you faithfully change the batteries twice a year, the detector is only good for ten years. Here in California, TPTB have made it so you can (generally) only buy sealed detectors that have ten-year lithium batteries in them. After ten years, you just replace the whole thing, which is a fair tradeoff for never having to remember to replace batteries, or worse, having detectors that look like they’re on the job, but in reality, someone took the battery out because the thing was beeping. This has killed people.
I’ve got a handful of Nest Protects in the house. The cool thing is that they all talk among themselves and perpetually self-test. They also can tell the difference between a steamy shower and smoke. At night, when I turn off the bedroom lights, the detector briefly glows green to say “All’s well!”
Merrylande requires everyone have the 10-year smoke detectors as of the first of this year. Ours are installed - we should probably test them periodically to make sure the 10-year batteries still work.
I drove thru a car wash on the way home because there was bird poop on the car. As soon as I got out, it started raining. But at least the car is poop-free, so there’s that. Glad my work week is over - this was a long one!
I have a wired up smoke detector, with a control unit for all flats downstairs. I assume there’s backup batteries in the actual detector bits, because the little flashy light stays flashy during power cuts. It definitely works, I burn cooking enough to test it.
Had a similar one in my old place, except that one was faulty; the one directly above my bed constantly went off at stupid o’clock- as in, that one decided that me sleeping=fire, and then set off all the alarms in all 3 flats. Every time it did, I had to get out of bed, and go turn it off in the corridor, then half the time it went off again 20 minutes later. One night it did it every 20 minutes for 3 hours, 3-6 am, so I just sat in the corridor wrapped in a blanket pressing the reset button every time. Nothing else that we could do without the key to turn it off.
Couldn’t get the jerk landlord to fix it either, he just claimed that as smoke set it off as well, it was working…
We supped at Cracker Barrel because I lurves their batter fried haddock. YUM! Once we got home, I boiled a dozen eggs which will be deviled tomorrow. I also repaired 2 pairs of jeans.
Howdy Y’all! We et shrimpies and went to Good Friday service Lutheran style. ‘Twas a good service. Plus, I have twuck! YAY! I spent some time today doin’ a general cave spiffin’ bein’ as company is comin’ on Sunday.
{{{gotti}}} ::tacklehug:: and a <grope> for good measure.
The time I joined the shot glass exchange, the person who was supposed to be sending to me vanished instead, which wasn’t really better.